Quote Originally Posted by drebbe View Post
I'd try these things:
-Disable hardware acceleration in Flash.
-Disable flash player in Firefox (Chrome uses its own Flash version)
-Try an old version of Firefox.
-Try to sandbox FFXIV with a virtual audio cable driver.
-Run DPC Latency Checker and see if there are high spikes when you alt+tab. A long pause could possibly cause the driver to reset.
My setup is boring to death. I don't even install the motherboard's bloatware that clogs up system resources. I've installed only the necessary system drivers.
I have no DPC latency issues according to LatencyMon. It's under 100μs.
No audio issues of any kind with everything else except XIV. No audio stutters, pops, cracklings, statics with any other application that outputs sound.
I think this issue is rooted deep in XIV and how it deals with sound. Sound breaks too easily in this game. It can crash when you plug in an audio jack, it can stop sound randomly because it doesn't like something in the background, you can change audio output device while in game. The audio needs an upgrade/fixing in this game to become more flexible and stop crashing so easily. Maybe it's because I ALT+TAB a lot that I create the environment for this issue to appear. I don't know. I had the same issues with my older system as well. Basically since 2.0 launched. It's always the same issues with audio. And it's not only when I alt+tabbing. Sometimes the audio stops while in game during a dungeon. It's something that happened to almost everybody I asked.
Anyway I can't do anything else. I tried what the forum Mod suggested to no avail.
2 completely different systems same audio issues over the years.
I just hope this will be reported to the dev team and maybe they can fix it/improve it on the next expansion or on some patch.